Posted
by
samzenpus
on Monday February 22, 2010 @12:26PM
from the learn-to-chew dept.

RendonWI writes "Nutritionists have long warned of the perils of hot dogs: fat, sodium and preservatives to name a few. Now, the American Academy of Pediatrics wants foods like hot dogs to come with a warning label not because of their nutritional risks but because they pose a choking hazard to babies and children."

No. Strangely it's only hot dogs. If you look back through history nobody has ever choked to death on anything until hot dogs were invented. Some say it was a plot by the government to eliminate the game of baseball.

Sure, you can choke on a hot dog. You can also choke on hamburger, bread, apple, celery, ice, grapes, peas, corn, banana, fish, and, well, almost any other food out there including applesauce and water (although applesauce and especially water are somewhat lower risk, but still quite possible).

Oblig. car analogy: It's not necessary to point out the danger of hot dogs specifically as a choke hazard any more than you need to tell pedestrians that

These are things that we would never know without our government point it out: coffee is hot, fast food is fattening and blocks arteries, cigarettes causes lung disease, and now....young children and choke on food.